Death Of Books?

Hardly. A historian argues books aint going nowhere despite all this digitalization crap.

I like the quote to start the essay:

God is dead.

—Nietzsche

Then, added in another hand:

Nietzsche is dead.

—God

And this:

Yet the general lack of concern for history among Americans has made us vulnerable to exaggerated notions of historic change—and so has our fascination with technology. The current obsession with cellular devices, electronic readers and digitization has produced a colossal case of false consciousness. As new electronic devices arrive on the market, we think we have been precipitated into a new era. We tout “the Information Age” as if information did not exist in the past. Meanwhile, e-books and devices like the Kindle represent less than 1% of the expenditure on books in the United States.